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Members of the Huaorani indigenous group from the Ecuadorian Amazon. Photo credit: Hoy newspaper, Ecuador.

Members of the Huaorani indigenous group from the Ecuadorian Amazon. Photo credit: Hoy newspaper, Ecuador.

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By Diego Cevallos

Isolated Indigenous Groups Face Extinction

Native South Americans eschewing contact with “civilization” are facing cultural genocide, warns a top United Nations official. No more than a total of 5,000 individuals make up the indigenous groups of the Korubo of Brazil, the Tagaeri of Ecuador, the Ayoreo of Paraguay and the Mashco-piros, Ashaninkas and Yaminahuas of Peru.

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By Abraham Lama

Farmers Rescue Native Potato

Seven Peruvian farming communities are moving to save original varieties of the potato that are on the verge of being lost. The farmers have created the Potato Park in the valley of Pisac in the southeast province of Cusco.

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The Panthera onca. Photo Credit: Claudio Contreras.

The Panthera onca. Photo Credit: Claudio Contreras.

By Pilar Franco

If the Jaguar Vanishes

An unhealthy jungle is one without the jaguar, the structure and composition of its ecosystem altered in the absence of the large feline. A new program will be launched in Panama, dedicated to the study and conservation of this Latin American cat.

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Credit: INAH

Credit: INAH

The well

Natural wells are sacred to today's Maya as they were to their ancestors. Tradition holds that the water in these wells were "virgin or pure" because they never came in contact with light.

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